Abronia latifolia |
Abronia maritima |
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coastal sand-verbena, yellow sand-verbena |
red sand-verbena, sticky sand verbena |
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Habit | Plants perennial. | Plants perennial. |
Stems | prostrate, often buried in sand, usually much branched, forming large mats, succulent, densely glandular-pubescent to glabrous. |
prostrate, often buried, often extensively branched, forming large mats, succulent, densely glandular-pubescent. |
Leaves | 1–6 cm; blade deltate-ovate to reniform, 2.2–4.8 × 2.7–5.2 cm, margins usually entire, sometimes slightly repand and undulate, surfaces glabrous or viscid-puberulent. |
petiole 0.5–3 cm; blade elliptic to oblong or nearly obovate, 5–6.8 × 2.3–4.3 cm, margins usually entire, sometimes ± repand and undulate, surfaces minutely viscid-puberulent. |
Inflorescences | peduncle longer than subtending petiole; bracts ovate, 5–9 × 3–5 mm, thin, yellowish green, glandular-pubescent; flowers 17–35. |
peduncle longer than subtending petiole; bracts lanceolate to lance-ovate, 7–11 × 3–4 mm, papery, minutely glandular to glandular-pubescent; flowers 10–18. |
Perianth | tube yellowish green, 6.5–18 mm, limb yellow, 8–13 mm diam., lobes slightly to moderately reflexed. |
tube red to reddish green, 6–10 mm, limb deep purplish red, 7–10 mm diam., lobes tightly reflexed. |
Fruits | winged, ± rhombic in profile, attenuate at both ends, 8–15 × 6–14 mm, scarious; wings 4–5, thin walled, small, cavities extending into wing. |
turbinate, 10–14 × 6–18 mm, thick, indurate, apex irregularly truncate and ± beaked; wings 3–5, without cavities. |
Abronia latifolia |
Abronia maritima |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer. | Flowering year-round. |
Habitat | Sandy soils, coastal scrub, lees of dunes adjacent to strand | Foredunes and unstable dunes near strand |
Elevation | 0-50 m (0-200 ft) | 0-50 m (0-200 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC
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CA; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, Sonora)
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Discussion | S. S. Tillett (1967) considered plants of Abronia umbellata var. minor (Standley) Munz to be introgressants between A. latifolia and A. umbellata. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 68. | FNA vol. 4, p. 65. |
Parent taxa | Nyctaginaceae > Abronia | Nyctaginaceae > Abronia |
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Name authority | Eschscholtz: Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Pétersbourg Hist. Acad. 10: 281. (1826) | Nuttall ex S. Watson: in W. H. Brewer et al., Bot. California 2: 4. (1880) |
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